Dressed to Kill (1980): Desire, Obsession and Voyeurism

We can say that Brian De Palma’s golden era reached its peak during the 1970s and 1980s. His auteur signature became fully defined in the works he conceived during those years. His name became synonymous with cinema through films such as Phantom of the Paradise (1974), Carrie (1976), Blow Out (1981), Scarface (1983), and The Untouchables (1987). During this same period, he made one of his most influential films, Dressed to Kill (1980), an erotic thriller with Hitchcockian overtones in which the director poured all his obsessions.
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